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Amazon.com, United Parcel Service and Pinterest announced just last week plans to eliminate as many as 46,700 jobs.
Pinterest has sacked two engineers for tracking which workers lost their jobs in a recent round of layoffs.
From BBC
Pinterest told investors that the move would impact about 15% of the workforce, or roughly 700 roles, without saying which teams or workers were affected.
From BBC
"This was a clear violation of Pinterest policy and of their former colleagues' privacy," the spokesperson added.
From BBC
In the same week that Pinterest announced it was laying off workers, Amazon cut 16,000 roles in its second round of redundancies in three months.
From BBC
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